34Q THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND. 



a verbal message to this effect, through his brother- 

 in-law, Mr. Lawrence. This I could not agree to. I 

 reminded his ambassador that Sam had only wished 

 to stand £10 on her in the first instance ; but I 

 offered to lay him 12 to 1 to any part of the £50 he 

 liked. This more than generous offer was indig- 

 nantly refused, and out of sheer spleen Sam went 

 and laid £600 to £100 against her, declaring, as he 

 termed it, that he had thus ' got £100 out of her ;' 

 and he then backed Killigrew, a horse of Avhose 

 form he knew something, not only from his public 

 performance, but from having ridden him in trials when 

 he belonged to the Admiral. Thus in his double 

 defeat in this race he probably suffered a greater 

 disappointment than he ever met with in the whole 

 course of his life — not only in losing his money, and 

 that no small sum, but in seeing the mare in other 

 hands run about three stone better than ever she had 

 done in his. This is the true story of the race and 

 Sam Rogers' connection with it ; and in wlTat point 

 the alleged collusion between us could have existed 

 it will take a very clever one indeed to discover. 



I had yet another notable transaction with Lord 

 William Powlett ; but in this case it was not ' a deal.' 

 I ran a little horse called Isthmian, in the Houghton 

 Meeting, after winning the Cambridgeshire, in a 

 selling race for £350. In the same race Lord 

 William had a colt by Flying Dutchman out of 

 Priestess — Duleibcllas dam. My horse was favourite 



